Russian national team roster for the 2019 World Championship

The Russian Ice Hockey Federation can now reveal the senior national team roster for the upcoming 2019 IIHF World Championship in Slovakia.

Goalkeepers: Andrei Vasilevskiy, Alexander Georgiev, Ilya Sorokin.

Defensemen: Artyom Zub, Dinar Khafizullin, Vladislav Gavrikov, Dmitry Orlov, Nikita Zaitsev, Artyom Blazhievskiy, Alexander Elesin, Bogdan Kiselevich, Nikita Nesterov, Mikhail Sergachyov.

Forwards: Ivan Telegin, Alexander Ovechkin, Evgeny Malkin, Sergei Andronov, Artyom Anisimov, Sergei Plotnikov, Mikhail Grigorenko, Evgeny Dadonov, Ilya Kovalchuk, Kirill Kaprizov, Nikita Kucherov, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Alexander Barabanov, Nikita Gusev.

The final 25-man squad will be announced in Slovakia.

Management:

Team leader: Roman Rotenberg, head coach: Ilya Vorobyov, senior coach: Alexei Zhamnov, coach: Alexei Kudashov, coach: Anvar Gatiyatulin, goalkeeping coach: Rashit Davydov, head physical training coach: Yury Zhdanov, individual training coaches: Alexander Troshin and Denis Korotyshev, methodist coach: Lars Johansson, sporting director: Oleg Kupriyanov.

2019 World Championship group stage schedule:

May 10

Russia - Norway, 17:15*

May 12

Russia - Austria, 13:15

May 13

Russia - Czech Republic, 17:15

May 15

Russia - Italy, 21:15

May 18

Latvia - Russia, 13:15

May 19

Switzerland - Russia, 21:15

May 21

Sweden - Russia, 21:15

*All start times according to Moscow time